Blindness is the next target for stem-cell therapy after US opens way to new trials

[Crabtownboy]

British scientists will apply this year to start patient trials of an embryonic stem-cell therapy for the commonest cause of blindness.

If approved, the study will be the second of its kind, after US regulators yesterday cleared the first human trial of the powerful master cells. The US decision to approve the trial of a paralysis treatment by the Geron Corporation will open the way for a team at University College London to test a similar therapy for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) on patients.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5576335.ece

 

[Aaron]

Let's be clear about what's going on here.

To harvest human embryonic stem cells, one must kill another person. Add to that sin the knowledge that NO embryonic stem cell research has yielded any positive results.

Compare that with the promise of adult stem cell research.

http://www.lifeissues.org/cloningstemcell/bradsarticle.html

Despite the rhetoric about wanting to look to embryonic stem cells for a cure for blindness, the real issue is money. Life science research is big bucks, and the real race isn't about cures, it's about money. It's not about patients, it's about patents.

Embryonic stem cell research is arbitrary human experimentation. There's no promise for a cure at all. It's blood money.

 

[LadyEagle]

Exactly. Blood money. Just as selling aborted baby parts is blood money. Same difference.

http://babypartstrafficking.org/

 

[tinytim]

Exactly, It is murder.

 

[Bro. Curtis]

The left celebrates murder. In the name of science.

Happy day, eh ?


I remember sumpthin' in scripture about evil being called good, and the people who stand for good will be called evil.